Word: lifted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...leaked buckets of rain on her naked body, spoiled her swan dance. But for the 250,000 people who last week gaped at Dancer Leverne and other exhibits of Cleveland's Great Lakes Exposition, her remark was the perfect tribute to a city's spirited struggle to lift itself up & out of Depression...
...Come-to-Cleveland" committee, which this year is bringing to the city no less than 176 conventions. Civic affairs got a distinct lift last November when Harold Hitz Burton, an able, vigorous Independent Republican backed by Cleveland's three newspapers, was elected Mayor. Meantime, a little group of public-spirited citizens had been thinking that the 100th anniversary of Cleveland's incorporation as a city offered a good chance for some kind of municipal exhibitionism which would put Cleveland back into the national sunlight. Having had the inspiration, they turned for action to a onetime Clevelander named Lincoln...
...Government, but they have maintained that economic slavery was nobody's business. . . . "We seek not merely to make government a mechanical implement, but to give it the vibrant personal character that is the embodiment of human charity. We are poor indeed if this nation cannot afford to lift from every recess of American life the dread fear of the unemployed that they are not needed in the world. We cannot afford to accumulate a deficit in the books of human fortitude. . . . "Governments can err-Presidents do make mistakes, but the immortal Dante tells us that divine justice weighs...
Scathing oratory seethed in the House of Commons last week as His Majesty's Government were fiercely attacked on their proposal to lift Sanctions by His Majesty's Loyal Opposition. The Chancellor of the Exchequer, frosty Mr. Neville Chamberlain, was hammered to the roots of his personal moral fibre by Opposition Leader Clement Attlee with savage, terrier-like insistence. After first saying that Benito Mussolini reminded him of "Scarface" Al Capone, Major Attlee shouted at the Chancellor of the Exchequer: "If Neville Chamberlain, instead of being mayor of Birmingham, had been mayor of Chicago, he would have altered...
...Wally had him on the ground with his left front foot on him and was trumpeting and stamping. He stamped and kicked at Ed and then dug his one tusk deep into Ed's body and jerked his head upward-ripping and slashing. He didn't lift Ed off the ground, but just gored him with a vicious ripping motion...